All Progressives Congress chieftain, and serial Presidential aspirant, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has blamed his former boss, Mr. Olusegun Obasanjo as the culprit behind the incessant power sector failure in the country.
Speaking at a book launch in Abuja on Tuesday, Atiku said he had warned the then President to stop over reliance on gas powered power stations and instead focus on caustic power station projects.
“Let me again say that power is very tricky.
“I had a disagreement with my president (Chief Obasanjo) in 2003 because I told him that we should go for caustic power station project but, he insisted on gas stations for power.
“I told him gas will not work in the country in the next 10 to 15 years because militants will continue to blow up the pipelines until he addresses restiveness in the Niger Delta by providing this and that.
“Obasanjo refused to listen to me and continued with the project and even subsequent administrations continued with it and 16 to 17 years after, we are still not there with power from gas.”